William Wyatt Bibb

William Wyatt Bibb (2 October 1781-10 July 1820) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large district from 26 January 1807 to 6 November 1813 (succeeding Thomas Spalding and preceding Alfred Cuthbert), a US Senator from 6 November 1813 to 9 November 1816 (succeeding William Bellinger Bulloch and preceding George Troup), and Governor of Alabama from 14 December 1819 to 10 July 1820 (preceding Thomas Bibb). He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
William Wyatt Bibb was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1781, and his family moved to southern Georgia in 1784. His family became some of the first settlers of Elbert County, and Bibb practiced medicine before serving in the State House of Representatives from 1803 to 1805 and in the US House of Representtaives from 1807 to 1813. In 1813, he was appointed to finish William H. Crawford's term in the US Senate, succeeding the temporary successor William Bellinger Bulloch. President James Monroe then appointed him to serve as Governor of the Alabama Territory, and he served from 1817 to 1819, when it became the state of Alabama, and continued to serve as Governor until his death in 1820. He died after being flung from his horse during a thunderstorm in 1820.